About this Training
The training has four parts:
- Opening and Welcome Message
- OSERS Investments to Improve Opportunities and Outcomes
- Improving Opportunities and Outcomes: Meet the National Technical Assistance Center on Transition: the Collaborative
- Keynote: Youth and Family Voices: The Importance of Secondary Transition
Opening and welcome session for the 2021 Capacity Building Institute and the new NTACT: the Collaborative (NTACT:C), hosted by NTACT:C's co-project officers.
You will:
- Learn about OSERS investments and commitment to our work to improve outcomes for all students and youth with disabilities
- Gain knowledge of the CBVI structure, purpose, and rationale for topics addressed during the CBVI and their connection to current and future work in states
- Better understand your own role in a successful CBVI as a mechanism for improving practice in your state
Keynote: Youth and Family Voices: The Importance of Secondary Transition.
Dan Habib, a documentary filmmaker and father of a son with a disability, and Amanda Waldron an individual with a disability, a disability/blindness advocate, and a student majoring in Special Education, provide reflections and commentary on postsecondary transition from their own lived experiences.
You will:
- Gain knowledge of how to meaningfully engage students and youth with disabilities, and family members in the secondary transition process
- Identify potential skills, qualities and attributes of effective secondary transition practices for students, youth, and family members
- Consider practices that foster and strengthen interagency, family/caregiver, and youth/young adult partnerships